How common is the surname Pang?

7,642 people in the United States had the surname Pang in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 40,401 Americans. It ranked 4,645th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Pang?

Pang Tong, Advisor to Chinese warlord Liu Bei (179-214), followed by May Pang.

Where is the surname Pang most common?

Wikidata records people named Pang in Eastern Han, the United States and Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Is the surname Pang getting more or less common?

More common. 6,627 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,642 in 2010, up 15%.

The surname Pang

A Chinese surname, carried by 7,642 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pang is more common than 97.1% of them.

Origin

Chinese origin

From: * various Chinese surnames, including Mandarin 龐 /庞 (páng), Cantonese 彭 (paang⁴) and Hokkien 馮 /冯 (pâng) * Khmer បាង (baang).

One of 193 Chinese surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,642 people named Pang in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 40,401 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,627.

#4,645

rank among US surnames

7,642

people in 2010

2.6

per 100,000 Americans

+15.3%

change since 2000 (was #4,865)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,640	Flanigan	7,648	40,369
#4,642	McKeever	7,647	40,375
#4,644	Reuter	7,643	40,396
#4,645	Whiteman	7,642	40,401

Who is named Pang

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

87% of people named Pang identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 6.2% as two or more races and 3.9% as white (not Hispanic).

Asian and Pacific Islander 87%
Two or more races 6.2%
White (not Hispanic) 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

Famous Pangs

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Pang Tong
Advisor to Chinese warlord Liu Bei (179-214)
May Pang
American former music executive, born 1950
Eric Pang
Badminton player, born 1982

Notable Pangs come mostly from Eastern Han (1), the United States (1) and Kingdom of the Netherlands (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pang

Pang has the Soundex code P520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P520.

Other Chinese surnames

All 193 Chinese surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Pang come from?: From: * various Chinese surnames, including Mandarin 龐 /庞 (páng), Cantonese 彭 (paang⁴) and Hokkien 馮 /冯 (pâng) * Khmer បាង (baang).
How common is the surname Pang?: 7,642 people in the United States had the surname Pang in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 40,401 Americans. It ranked 4,645th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pang?: In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Pang identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 6.2% as two or more races.
Who is the most famous person named Pang?: Pang Tong, Advisor to Chinese warlord Liu Bei (179-214), followed by May Pang.
Where is the surname Pang most common?: Wikidata records people named Pang in Eastern Han, the United States and Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Is the surname Pang getting more or less common?: More common. 6,627 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,642 in 2010, up 15%.